RCS vs. PMM, TDF, MMT, NCA, ZTR, WHF, BKT, MIN, IIF, and RFI
Should you be buying PIMCO Strategic Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PIMCO Strategic Income Fund include Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA), Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund (ZTR), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), and Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (NYSE:RCS) and Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:PMM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
In the previous week, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund and PIMCO Strategic Income Fund both had 3 articles in the media. Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat PIMCO Strategic Income Fund's score of 0.53 indicating that Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.5% of PIMCO Strategic Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund received 26 more outperform votes than Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave PIMCO Strategic Income Fund an outperform vote while only 65.91% of users gave Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund beats Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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